Emily Horne

Emily Horne is best known for being a multi-time bigamist after her well-publicised marriages to six men without informing them of her previous marriages and without ever legally divorcing any of them. Horne has been sentenced twice for bigamy, which led to calls by the authorities on just how she was able to go unnoticed for so long. She has now changed her name by deed poll and is known as Maxine-Accastes Quiberberon.[1]

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Childhood, education and work

After finishing high school, she went on to studies in physics and electronics at Leeds Metropolitan University. She was accepted onto the course but never started it.[2] Horne's story was shown on episode "The Bigamist Bride: My Five Husbands" of Channel 4 TV documentary series Cutting Edge.[3]

Marriages

At the time of her sentence, Horne had married six times without dissolving her first and only legal marriage[2] Horne never informed any of her new partners that she was already married.[4]

Cautions and verdicts

In August 2004, Horne was cautioned by the police for two cases of bigamy.[5] Her first sentence for bigamy was given by Ipswich Crown Court around 2004, when she was sentenced to six months in prison.[2] In June 2009, she was charged again, this time at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester. The court passed sentence on 27 July 2009, when she was given a ten-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, since the court learned that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was under medication.[6] In 2011, Horne tried to obtain prescription drugs by posing as her latest husband. She was due to be sentenced 20 January 2012, but the verdict was postponed pending psychiatric evaluation.[7] On 20 March 2012, she was handed a 12-month community order with supervision. The judge also imposed a 28-day electronically tagged curfew from 7 pm to 7 am.[4]

References
  1. "Bigamist Emily Horne's fraud sentence delayed for reports". BBC News. 20 January 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  2. The Daily Telegraph 23 June 2009, accessed 29 July 2009
  3. The Bigamist Bride: My Five Husbands, accessed 22 October 2009.
  4. Guardian.co.uk March 21, 2012: Bigamist Emily Horne is spared jail after dressing as seventh 'husband' to obtain prescription, accessed 21 March 2012
  5. Sunday Mirror, 8 February 2004, accessed 29 July 2009
  6. The Times 28 July 2009, accessed 29 July 2009
  7. BBC.co.uk Jan 20 2012: Bigamist Emily Horne's fraud sentence delayed for reports, accessed 10 March 2012
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